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I dont think i will get an external harddisk anymore cause everything is inside nothing for me to keep now!
Terrible, i thnk they purposely make the new hard disk so low quality to make us keep buying new one!

whs
I dont think i will get an external harddisk anymore cause everything is inside nothing for me to keep now!
Terrible, i thnk they purposely make the new hard disk so low quality to make us keep buying new one!

Yeah, you got a point. I use 4 external enclosures and use only bare bone disks now after a couple of my traditional external disks died. Fortunately I always double/triple copy my important data. The dead disks make nice paperweights, LOL.

Recently I buy SSDs for use in the external enclosures. Up to now they hold up - we'll see.

1TWD external hard disk unknown,not initialized,unallocated,i/o error

External Hard Disk, Unknown, Not Initialized ! No Unallocated Space.Hi,
I'm new to this forum.
My external hard disk (Seagate) is detected in the task bar after connecting, but not visible in "My Computer".
It is visible in Device manager under Disk Drives but not under USB.
There are few threads in this forum which are similar to mine, except that...

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can you please help me, i dont want to lose my data, it...

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Unaccessible External Hard Drive: Disk 1 Unknown, Not InitializedHello. Through the power of google, I have come here to see If I can get any help recovering data. Essentially found this thread: https://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/288692-disk-1-unknown-not-initialized-unallocated.html and just having really similar issues.
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